August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
594 pages
15h 54m
English
Tracing session activity is at the heart of most SQL performance tuning exercises. Oracle provides a rich set of tools to trace SQL activity. This chapter introduces the Oracle SQL trace facility and shows you how to set up SQL tracing in your environment. Oracle provides numerous “events” that help you perform various types of traces.
Although there are several tracing methods available, Oracle now recommends that you use the DBMS_MONITOR package for most types of tracing. The chapter contains several recipes that explain how to use this package to generate traces. In addition, we show how to trace sessions by setting various Oracle events, the setting of which is often requested by Oracle Support. You'll ...